Paper-hanging apparatus



A. AND M. GRIGAS.

PAPER HANGING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16, 1919.

1,354,184. PatentedSept. 28,1920.

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ANTHONY GRIG-AS AND MIKE GRIGAS, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER-HANGING- APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

Application filed July 16, 1919. Seria1 No. 311,125.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANrHoN-Y GuleAs, a citizen of Russia, residing at Worcester, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, and 1, MIKE GRIGAS, a citizen of Russia, residing at lVorcester, county of WVorcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Hanging Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus for hanging wall paper in a convenient and practical manner, the apparatus being provided with means for trimming the border, applying paste and pressing the paper upon the wall.

A further object is to provide means com bined with the apparatus by which the uppermost or lowermost ends of the paper blank may be pressed into position, as are also blanks presented to corners so as to avoid hand operation.

These and other like objects, which will become more fully apparent as the description progresses, are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a top plan view showing a paper hanging apparatus made in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same, and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the paste applying device.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the numeral 10 indicates a vertical wall upon which the paper blank 11 is to be disposed. The apparatus comprises a handle 14 which may be made of any desired length so as to be conveniently manipulated and extend the head portion along the wall at the top of the room to be papered.

Formed with the handle 14 is a head 15, elongated laterally so as to receive between the extending arms 16 the standard width of an ordinary roll of paper 11.

Journaled in the lower edge of the arms 16, which are angularly disposed relative to the head 10, are the spindles 17 of a freely rotatable brush 18, near the junction of the arms with the head. It is the purpose of this brush 18 to free the wall in advance of the papering process from impurltles such as sand, etc., and furthermore give the lower part of the apparatus an elastic support against the wall. Other spindles 19 extend from the ends of a shaft 20, having mounted thereon, at proper distances apart, a pair of cutting disks 21. These cutting disks will just crease the paper so that the end strips may be easily torn off with the help of the special tool which will be more fully described herebelow. Another pair of spindles 22, near the outer end of the arms, are fixed in a cylindrical roller 23, used in pressing the blanks upon the wall.

Fixed upon the extending ends of the spindles l9 and 22, at one side of the apparatus, are sprockets 24 and 25 over which is trained a chain 26, the chain also passing over another sprocket 27, fixed upon a shaft 28, passing through one of the arms 16 and which shaft has fixed upon its inner end a head 29, to which is secured a cylindrical casing 30, containing a plurality of minute apertures 31, the cylinder having a head 32 at its opposite end from which extends a sleeve 33, journaled in the opposite arm 16. An operating hand wheel 34, is secured by the pin 35 to a spindle 36, the same extending from an inner head 37 and being rotatable in the sleeve 33.

Formed with the head 37, adjacent to the head 32, is an inner cylinder or casing 38, provided with a plurality of minute apertures 39, which may be brought into register with the similar apertures 31 by actuating the hand wheel 34 when desired.

Another pair of spindles 40 is set in the arms 16 and carried by them is a cylindrical brush 41, adapted to rest upon the outer surface of the paper, pressing the same against the distributing surface 30.

At the extreme outer end of the arms 16 is engaged a pair of extending screw threaded rods 42, supporting a cylindrical head 43, to which is secured a plate 44, and due to its axial mounting, the plate may be adjusted with reference to the surface of the wall 10 and held in adjustment by the wing nuts 45.

Fixed upon the outer surface of the head 15 are a pair of clips 46, adapted to hold the cylindrical handle 47, in which is secured a rod 48, and rotatable on the angularly turned end 49 of the rod, is a disk cutter 50, with which the paper may be cut transversely or otherwise as may be desired by hand.

In operation, the hollow interior of the der 30, being brought in contact with the brush 4=1, and then in front of the roller 23, beyond the edge of the plate 44.

As the implement is moved on the level surface of the wall, rotary motion is communicated by the roller to the chain 26, ro tating the knives 21 and simultaneously therewith rotating the paste roller 30, which at that time has been adjusted with rela tion to the inner casing 38 so that the several openings 31 and 39 are in register,

either partially or wholly, so that a proper quantity of the paste is presented to the inner side of the paper blank 11, pressed thereon by the brush 41 and then pressed against the wall by the roller 23. The plate 44 is particularly useful in corners and at the upper and lower ends of the blank as applied.

Should it be desired to sever the paper or other purposes, the handle 47 may be moved from the containing brackets 46 and the cutter 50 used as desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a paper hanging apparatus, the combination with a handled frame. having a pair of spaced arms extending at the head thereof, a paste supplying cylinder rotatably mounted therein, means for pressing paper against said cylinder, a roller mounted between said arms adapted to press the paper upon the wall, means for trimming 2. In a paper hanging apparatus, the v combination with a handled body, said body having arms extending at spaced distances apart, a roller mounted in said arms adapted to make contact with the paper, a

pair ofrotary cutters adapted to trim the edges of said paper, a cylinder having perforate walls mounted in said arms, driving connections between said cylinder, rotary cutters and roller, a casing circumjacent to said cylinder, said casing having perforations alinable with the perforations in said cylinder, and means for rotating said casing so as to partially or wholly close said registering perforations.

3. In a paper hanging apparatus, the combination with a frame, and an operative handle engaged therewith, said frame having a pair of extending arms spaced to receive a roll of wall paper, of a brush mounted in said arms adapted to clean the wall, a pair of rotary cutters revolubly .mounted in said arms, a paste supplying cylinder journaled in said arms, a cylindrical brush adapted to press the paper uponsaid paste cylinder, a roller mounted in said frame adapted to press the paper against the wall, driving connections between said roller, cutter and paste supplying cylinder, and means for controlling the orifices through which paste passes from said cylinder.

In'testimony whereof we have aflixed our signatures.

ANTHONY GRIGAS. MIKE GRIGAS. 

